Left, Right & Center
Recession fears, immigration rules and ‘electability’
President Trump says negative economic forecasts are fake news, but he’s also making nervous calls to his friends in the business world to ask if they’re true.
By Josh Barro • • 51m ListenIt was a wild week in the financial markets, driven by increasing worries about the global economy. President Trump delayed some tariffs on China so they won’t affect the holiday shopping season — an implicit admission that his trade policy is hurting the economy and his political standing.
Plus: visas for Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib to visit Israel are denied, and the panel discusses the “electability” narrative around the women in the 2020 Democratic field. A new immigration rule from the Trump administration that could make it a lot harder to get a green card, especially if you’re poor. Randy Capps from the Migration Policy Institute talks the panel through the numbers and whether the rule is even legal.
Josh Barro
Former host of Left, Right & Center
Helaine Olen
reporter-in-residence at the Omidyar Network
Tim Carney
Senior columnist, Washington Examiner
Sara Fay
Former producer of Left, Right and Center
Michael C. Davis
Global fellow at the Wilson Center and a senior research scholar at the Weatherhead East Asia Institute at Columbia University
Randy Capps
Research director at the Migration Policy Institute